Artificial Intelligence and Information Storage Are More Important than Humans.

 During the summer of 2026 severe weather caused flooding and power outages in Gary, Indiana and its environs. A derecho wind event on August 11, coupled with tornadic activity (two tornadoes: an F1 and F2) and severe ("historic") flooding, left 95 percent of Lake County (363,398–374,500 customers of Northern Indiana Public Service Company [NIPSCO]) as well as many citizens of six other local counties (Carroll, Fayette, Henry, Porter, and Tipton) without power. (Coincidentally, Lake County had also been hit by five tornadoes in the month of June--from which many citizens were still waiting for recovery help.) As of August 18, the Chicago Tribune was reporting that 26,836 customers were still without power. On August 23 over 20,000 NIPSCO customers were still reporting no power. By August 25, 95% of NIPSCO's regional customers had had their power restored (though over 3500 were still without). 

The travesty of this whole event is the fact that the none of the area's 38 data centers experienced a single minute's loss of power. This fact grossly illustrates and reconfirms the fact that the priorities of corporations and the billionaire capitalists who drive American capitalism do not include humans or human health and well-being.

Trump Is a Spiritual Gift to Humankind

I've been saying for over ten years (and 16 years before that) that Donald Trump is a gift to humankind as Adolf Hitler was to provoke humankind into deciding what's important to fight about while traversing the planet in our human bodies. Not that I have any hope for either America, democracy, or the race of homo sapiens sapiens but The Donald was our Spiritual Dimension's gift to OurSelves to see if we were willing to value democracy, America's foundational values, and people "at risk" (each other) enough to fight back, to stand up against the blatant (and, supposedly, illegal) abuses of power transpired by Oranjiji and his spineless cult members.

Cultural Appropriation

There can be no movement, no progress, without appropriation. In fact, all learning and evolution is based on the accommodation and assimilation of new and "foreign" information, the synthesis and use of an ever-expanding base of knowledge. So how can we account for the demonization of cultural appropriation?

Two Trillion Galaxies in Our Universe

According to the latest estimates from all of the current telescopic data retrieval mechanisms available to us, there are over 200 trillion galaxies in our Universe. According to our religions (esp. The Bible), they're all present for our (Earth-born homo sapiens sapiens) benefit and use. 

... and we can't even get to Mars.

No Kings?! No CAPITALISM!!

 Why don't I attend these anti-government protest rallies? First of all, it's because I've been a proponent of a form of peaceful anarchism since the early 1980s. Second of all, it's because I see politicians, politics, and government as mere symptoms of the problem. The problem is the religion of "capitalism" that the monied aristocrats have masterfully forced upon us, everything else is just window dressing, distractions (and entertainment) from the real issues. The real issues come from our unwitting acquiescence to the system of enslavement that the capitalist "Captains of Industry" and their loyal (well-paid and maintained) minions and clever experimental social-psychologists have tricked us into not only accepting and endorsing but of vociferously perpetuating--as if there are no other ways! 

My signs for the anti-government rallies would read:

You're All Slaves to Capitalism!

and 

Until you Grow Your Own Food,

Make Your Own Clothes,

and

Care for Your Own Horses

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Trump and his lackeys are just as much slaves to the Puppet Masters as we are; so long as his actions and policies serve as harmless to their money and power (capitalism), the Ultra-Wealthy will turn a blind eye. Make any overtures to mess with their money and power streams and you'll meet with the same fates as Lincoln, McKinley, the Kennedy brothers, M.L. King, Jr., Epstein, et al.